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THE MONKS OF lONA. 2G7
County or Town. Name ef Church.
Perthshire Cill-Chonan or Fortingal.
Do Cill-Fhinn.
Do Cill-AIadoc.
Forfarshire Cill-Causnan.
Edinburgh Cill-Gliiles, i. e. , GhiUe losa.
Fife Cill-Chonnchar.
Do Cill-Eaymont.
Do Cill-Eeuny .
Aberdeenshire CUl-Bartha.
Do Cill-Adamnan. In the Ellon district, and dedicated
in the 7th century,
Sutherland Cill-Earn.
Do Cill-Donnan.
Do Cill-Pheadar, in Clyne.
Do Cill-Chalum-ChiU, Clyne.
Eoss-shire Cill-Martin.
Do Cill-Donnan.
Do Cill-Earnan.
S° P^fr'!^'''' IbothinKintail.
Do Cill-Uistean, J
Inverness Cill-Colm, Petty. The Earl of Moray has also the
title of Lord of St Colm, from a small island on
the coast of Fife.
Do Cill-Beathan, Strathglass.
Do Cm-Uradan, do.
Do Cill-Finnan, Glengarry.
Do Cill-Donnan, also in Glengarry.
Do Cill-Barr, or Barra Isle.
Do Cill-Michael, do.
Argyleshire Cill-Chalum, in Lorn.
Do CiU-Finan.
Do Cill-Choinnich , or Kenneth.
Do Cill-Chiaran (Campbeltown).
Do CUl-Oran, in Colonsy Island.
Kincardineshire Cill-Lauran. The birth-place of John De Fordun,
author of the Scoto-Chnmieon. This parish is also
celebrated for having been the residence, and pro-
bably the burial place of St Palladius, sent to
Scotland by Pope Celestine, in 431. St Palladius
was the first bishop sent to Scotland,
Having taken you in imagination on a rapid pigrimage to view, if not
to pray with me at, the shrines of Celtic Saints in every quarter and por-
tion of our native country, is it too much to expect you to endorse with
me the honest statement of Dr Macleod ?
We have seen how the surface of Scotland has been studded with
churches dedicated to saints of Celtic names ; but the sceptic will exclaim,
" You North Bri tains are so very clannish, that nothing less than national
saiuts will satisfy you." My answer to any such charge is that there are
more names of Eoman saints on the Scottish Catholic Ivalendar than on
the Kalendar of any country of its size in Europe.